The First Year Grief Roadmap Gives Your Church a Clear Pathway for Grief Care
A pastoral, ready-to-use grief care system for churches that want to walk with people through the first year after loss.
Help your church care for grieving people with more confidence, consistency, and compassion.
Explore the Church Grief Care PathwayBuilt for church care teams
A clear, compassionate pathway your pastors, staff, and lay leaders can use to support grieving people through the difficult first year after loss.
A Wider Door for Grief Care
Many churches want a structured grief-care resource but need something that fits their theology, their people, and their pastoral approach.
The First Year Grief Roadmap is practical, pastorally grounded, and theologically spacious.
It offers spiritual support without requiring grieving people to agree to a narrow doctrinal statement before they can receive care.
Churches can use the Roadmap with people who are deeply religious, barely hanging onto faith, angry at God, full of questions, or unsure what they believe.
The goal is not to force grief into a formula.
The goal is to help the church keep walking with people after the funeral is over.
Choose your implementation option
Both options include a one-year church license for the First Year Grief Roadmap. Choose based on how much launch support your team needs.
Option 1: Church License
$1,500/year
Best for: Churches with trained leaders or an existing care ministry
Talk with Tom about which option fits your church.Option 2: Guided Church Pilot
$2,500/year
Best for: Churches that want help launching the first group
Talk with Tom about which option fits your church.How the Guided Pilot Works
Tom walks with your team through the first launch so the Roadmap is clear, pastoral, and sustainable in your church context.
1. Launch conversation
Tom meets with your pastors, staff, or lay leaders to understand your church, your current care needs, and your hopes for grief ministry.
2. Prepare facilitators
Your leaders receive guidance on how to use the Roadmap, lead with pastoral sensitivity, and create a safe setting for grieving people.
3. Launch the first group
Your church begins the first Roadmap group with the materials, structure, and support needed to start well.
4. Meet weekly during the pilot
During the first group cycle, Tom provides coaching, feedback, and practical help as questions or challenges come up.
5. Debrief and plan the next step
After the first group, Tom helps your church evaluate what worked, what needs adjustment, and how to continue grief care in a sustainable way.
Churches and care leaders are using the Roadmap to support real people in real grief.
βAfter listening, I realized that what I was feeling was normal. That helped me feel more peaceful.β
Lila
Group participant
βAs a new grief group facilitator, I needed something clear, grounded, and usable. The First Year Grief Roadmap was exactly what we needed.β
Jason
Spiritual care counselor
βI have used the Roadmap in counseling with individuals and in grief support groups. It gives people language, structure, and a compassionate way to move through the first year after loss.β
Elaine
Hospice bereavement coordinator
Talk with Tom about bringing the Roadmap to your church
If your church is ready to strengthen grief care, start with a conversation. Tom will help you discern whether the Church License or Guided Church Pilot is the right fit.
Start the conversation
Share your information and Tom will follow up about the best next step for your church.
